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Author | : William F. Stark |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2009-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786740051 |
In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn -- the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.
Author | : Charles Davis |
Publisher | : Down East Books |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1461741831 |
Charles Davis was one of the world's leading maritime model builders. During the first half of the last century, he was also acclaimed as an artist, historian, and author. This is his recollection of one of his first adventures at sea: sailing out of New York in 1892 on a voyage around Cape Horn, aboard the bark James A. Wright.
Author | : Eric Newby |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2014-11-06 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0007597843 |
An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last ‘grain race’ of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby.
Author | : John Kretschmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781580801621 |
Legendary account of the author's voyage around Cape Horn in a 32-foot sailboat, sailing east-to-west (thus the Horn is to starboard, or on the right). This is a notoriously difficult and dangerous passage, especially in a boat this size.
Author | : A.J. Villiers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1934 |
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Author | : David Grann |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2023-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1471183696 |
From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The crew, marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2,500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. Then, six months later, another, even more decrepit, craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways and they had a very different story to tell. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with counter-charges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. While stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death—for whomever the court found guilty could hang.
Author | : |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Sailing ships |
ISBN | : 0393050335 |
A photographic record of early twentieth-century maritime history.
Author | : John Kretschmer |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1472951638 |
John Kretschmer is sailing's practical philosopher – as much a doer as a thinker. And that is the overarching theme of this chronicle of a sailing life. Often amusing, sometimes poignant, occasionally terrifying but always inspiring, his deeply personal account is a welcome reminder of the good life waiting at sea. With hundreds of thousands of nautical miles under his keel, John's adventures have taken him several times around the world, with challenging crossings of the Atlantic and the Pacific, a narrow escape from a coup in Yemen, an unlikely deliverance from a coral reef off Belize as well as more serene, introspective passages where trade winds are blowing and stories are flowing. His crew has included CEOs, actors, writers, teachers, kids – in essence, everyone. John's narrative is interwoven with practical tips and advice in seamanship, but also, and just as importantly, his hard-won insights about making the most of our lives. He truly believes we find out who we really are, and what we are capable of, far from the shackles of land, when we find a place where time changes shape – days may merge into one another, but minutes are memorable. To live adventurously is to live more fully, and that is the life John Kretschmer continues to live. In this book he shares his simple profundities that will inspire those who live to sail, and those seeking something more rewarding from life.
Author | : Spencer Apollonio |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Covers a full range of exciting, dangerous, and everyday shipboard experiences
Author | : David Hays |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1996-04-26 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0060976969 |
A father and son sail 17,000 miles in a 25 foot boat they built together.